Task 29

It is not always easy to guess the meaning of the verb formed from the name of an animal. "Switch on" your lin­guistic intuition and match the words with their definitions.

1. RAM, v LAMB, v

a) to give birth to lambs

b) to drive or force by heavy blows, to strike with great force

2. APE, v MONKEY, v

a) to imitate, to mimic

b) informal to play or trifle idly, to fool

3. PIG, v HOG, v

a) to appropriate selfishly, to take more than one's share of

b) informal to eat something quickly, to gulp

4. PARROT, v CROW, v

a) to repeat or imitate without thought or understanding

b) to gloat, boast, or exult

5. DOG, v HOUND, v BITCH, v

a) slang to make spiteful comments, to complain

b) to follow closely or track, especially with hostile intent

c) to pursue or harass without respite

6. MOUSE, v RAT, v

a) slang to desert one's party or associates, especially in a time of trouble

b) to prowl about, as if in search of something, to seek or search stealthily or watchfully, as if for prey

Task 30

Determine in which sentences conversion is full (complete) and in which - partial. Give all necessary explanations.

1. The matron believed in cheering the sick (A. Marshall).

2. But once you see them as a whole, once your eyes leave the individual and encompass the mass, a new quality comes into the picture (R. Wright).

3. He didn't want concessions for some relative over here or any of that rubbish (E. Anthony).

4. The impossible is never impossible! (A. Christie).

5. If they were having a boring conversation, he listened to the commercials (P.P. Heide).

6. Many dead and many wounded and crippled had seen the terror and serious nature of war (D. D'Amato}.

7. Mr. Dalton, feeling vaguely that a social wrong existed, wanted to give him a job so that his family could eat and his sister and brother could go to school (R. Wright).

8. When there was a plague or an epidemic, it was the weak who were wiped out and the strong survived (A. Hailey).

9. Thousands of years ago, the Chinese invented the aba­cus, a calculating device consisting of a frame and col­umns of beads (Bright Ideas Calendar).

10. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans created columns, vertical structures that support a weight above (Bright Ideas Calendar).

11. Psychoanalysis is the one school that really deals with mental material, and it sometimes gets results, but it works only in the sphere of the abnormal and the deranged... (B.L. Whorf).

Task 31

Compare the phrases and say: a) in which of them a parti­ciple is used, b) in which of them an adjectivized participle is used.

I. 1) a standing rule (постоянно действующее правило) - 2) a standing man (стоящий человек)

II. 1) a walking man (идущий человек) - 2) a walking case (больной, которому разрешено вставать с по­стели)

III. I) running water (водопровод, проточная вода) -2) running water (текущая вода)

Laboratory work 3

“Word – Composition”

Discussion:

1. General description of word-composition in English.

2. Diagnostic criteria for compounds (phonetic, graphic, morphological, syntactic, semantic).

3. Classification of compounds.

Practice:

Practicum – Tasks 33-38, pp.244-255.

Literature:

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2. The Issues in Englis Philology (Study Manual). – Irkutsk, 1998.- P.39-42.

3. Arnold I.V. The English Word. – М.: Высш. шк., 1986. – Р.108-133.

4. Ginzburg R.S., Khidekel S.S. Knyazeva G.Y., Sankin A.A. A Course in Modern English Lexicology. – M.: Higher School Publishing House, 1966. – P.172-200.

5. Антрушина Г.Б., Афанасьева О.В., Морозова Н.Н. Лексикология английского языка. – М.: Дрофа, 1999. – С. 104-113.